Cinta Ramblado Minero, lecturer in Spanish, is head of the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick (Ireland). Her research focuses on (gendered) discourses of memory, representation and transitional politics in the Hispanic World (with special emphasis on contemporary Spain). Her current research is centred on two main aspects: the demarcation and re-inscription of public spaces (sites of memory), and gendered discourses of memory as contestation of traditional paradigms of war and conflict, where the dissident body becomes a site of political violence and repression. She is the author of “Locks of Hair/Locks of Shame? Women, Dissidence, and Punishment during Francisco Franco’s Dictatorship” (In Memory and Cultural History of the Spanish Civil War: Realms of Oblivion (Brill, 2013)) and “Madres de España/Madres de la Anti-España” (Entelequia 7).

Mar Gallego has taught American and African American Literatures at the University of Huelva (Spain) since 1996. Currently, she is the Director of the Migration Research Center at this University. Her major research interests are African American Studies and the African diaspora, with a special focus on women writers and gender issues. She has been awarded fellowships at the Universities of Cornell, Northwestern and Harvard. She has published a monograph entitled Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance (Hamburg: LitVerlag, 2003) and has co-edited several essay collections: Myth and Ritual in African American and Native American Literatures (2001), Contemporary Views on American Culture and Literature in the Great 60’s (2002), Razón de mujer: Género y discurso en el ensayo femenino (2003), El legado plural de las mujeres (2005), Espacios de género (2005), Relatos de viajes, miradas de mujeres (2007), Género, Ciudadanía y Globalización (2009 and 2011) and The Dialectics of Diasporic Identification (2009).

Silvia P. Castro Borrego

Silvia Castro Borrego is Lecturer of English and North American literature and culture at the University of Málaga (Spain). She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington during the academic year 1995-96, lecturer at the JFK Institute in Berlin (Germany) in the summer of 2003, and visiting scholar in the summers of 2012 and 2013 at Spelman College (Atlanta). She has published book chapters and articles on African American literature and the literature of the African diaspora. Among these are “Motherlands as Gendered Spaces: Julie Dash’s Film and Novel Daughters of the Dust” in Family in Africa and The African Diaspora (Salamanca, 2004), “There is more to it than meets the eye: Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar, a Narrative of the Diaspora,” Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos (Seville, 2003), “Double Consciousness” Encyclopedia of American Studies (New York, 2001). She is the co-editor of the book Identity, Migration and Women’s Bodies as Sites of Knowledge and Transgression (Oviedo: KRK, 2009) an interdisciplinary study of Migration and Diaspora from a postcolonial and gender perspective. Her most recent publications include the co-edited volumes Identities on the Move: Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities (Lexington, 2015), Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects: Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body (Cambridge Scholars, 2011), the edited volume The Search for Wholeness and Diaspora Literacy in African American Literature (Cambridge Scholars, 2011), and the articles “Re(claiming) Subjectivity and Transforming the Politics of Silence through the Search for Wholeness in Push” in the journal Atlantis (Oviedo 2014) and “Integration, Assimilation, and Identity in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Barbara and Carlton Molette’s Rosalee Pritchett in the Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (forthcoming 2015).

Manuela Coppola teaches English literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. Her research interests include postcolonial theory, gender studies, and literatures of the African diaspora. She has been Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has published on South African literature, Italian postcolonial women writers, and on contemporary Caribbean and Black British literature. Among her publications, L’isola madre. Maternità e memoria nella narrativa di Jean Rhys e Jamaica Kincaid (2010) and Crossovers. Language and Orality in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry (2011). She is currently researching on women poets of the Africa diaspora and their role as intellectuals.

Dr. Beatriz Domínguez-García is a lecturer at the University of Huelva and also a member of the Women’s Studies Group. She is currently doing research on the intersections of gender and genre in contemporary feminist fiction, focusing on detection. Among her publications it is worth-mentioning Hadas y Brujas: la re-escritura de los cuentos de hadas en escritoras contemporáneas en lengua inglesa(1999). She has also co-edited the volumes Literature, Gender, Space (2003) and Experiencing Gender: International Approaches (forthcoming) and published a number of book chapters about the work of Kate Atkinson and her Jackson Brodie series.

María Elena Jaime de Pablos

María Elena Jaime de Pablos, Ph.D. in English, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Almeria (Spain), where she teaches English Literature and directs the Degree programme in “ English Studies” and the M.A. programme in “Gender Studies: Women, Culture and Society”. Her major research interests are post-colonial and Irish Literature, with a special focus on women writers and gender issues. She is the author of La visión de la mujer irlandesa de finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX en la narrativa de George Moore: una perspectiva feminista (2000), co-author of Distancias cortas. El relato breve en Gran Bretaña, Irlanda y Estados Unidos, 1995-2005 (2010), and co-editor of Nuevas perspectivas críticas en los estudios de literatura irlandesa (2003), Irish Landscapes (2003), Joyceana: literia hibernica (2005); Análisis de género en los estudios irlandeses (2007) and George Moore and the Quirks of Human Nature (2014). She is currently the General Editor of Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres, an on-line Journal on Women’s Studies, and the Director of the Research Group “HUM-874: Mujeres, Literatura y Sociedad”.

Cinta Mesa is a PhD candidate associated to the project. Her fields of research are Transnational and gender studies in contemporary Latino Literature. She has recently focused on how violence is inflicted on the diasporic body. She is author of Geografía de Experiencias: La Recuperación del Pasado por dos Autoras de Origen Latinoamericano (Ediciones Alfar. Sevilla, 2010) and coeditor of Experiencias de Género (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva 2015). She has published on contemporary Chicana and Caribbean-American Literature. Her latest publications are “The Inscription of Violence on the Culture Body: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” (Revista de Filología Inglesa 2014) and “A Latino conversation from the Borderland” (Gunter Narr 2015).